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I have very little knowledge of RAM timing so I turn to experts -- would it work if RAM has slightly different timings in different channels or do I need to find the one that has exactly the same timings.

no, considering the ocz stuff is a bit unstable to begin with, you are going to have a very crash prone system if it works at all. I personally wouldn't fill six dimms, let alone mix n match. ocz gold != ocz platinum, either, it's not just the timings that are different.

no, considering the ocz stuff is a bit unstable to begin with, you are going to have a very crash prone system if it works at all. I personally wouldn't fill six dimms, let alone mix n match. ocz gold != ocz platinum, either, it's not just the timings that are different.

Fair enough on timing and Gold/Platinum difference I missed -- that being said, why would you not fill six dimms if exact same memory modules are used ?

that should work why you need all that mem...
have 4 gig and its more than enuff for me along whatever i decide to do game, surf,watch dvd,etc... not to mention my pc folds 24/7 in the background...

Boucher, I assume you refer to "using same modules" rather than 8-8-8-24 RAM when you say that should work

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2 virtual machines (Server 2008 R2) through Hyper-V -- that leaves me with about 2Gb of RAM per machine which is pushing them to the limit -- I am planning on upgrading to 12Gb, adding a new VM and splitting them equally to 3Gb each -- I do software development for living in case you wonder why I need so many VMs

well, I didn't see whether or not you were overclocking, but for some reason filling all your DIMMS introduces a lot more reliability problems, especially when OC'ing. If you are running the whole system stock speed and voltages etc, it *may* work with mixed timings. But I wouldn't rely on it, and you may have to RMA the memory and get matching kits.